APRIL 15,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
"When you get to know a lot of people you make a great discovery You find that one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America. It just wouldn't be our kind of America without any one of them."
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Flowers For University Offices Supplied by Building and Grounds
Thirty-five to 50 bouquets are supplied to administrative and departmental offices once or twice a week by the department of buildings and grounds from flowers grown in the University greenhouse.
Cut flowers from the greenhouse are sent to the chancellor's office and business office. They decorate the hospital, the Union, and the library, as well as the various offices. The exact number of bouquets sent out depends upon the number of flowers in bloom in the greenhouse.
A pre-war practice was the placing of flower arrangements in the rooftops of Strong hall. This practice may be resumed by buildings and grounds.
The greenhouse furnishes cut flowers for various University teas, dinners, and parties.
Its services are not confined to this campus. Flowers are sent to the University hospital in Kansas City to be planted there.
The lilacs blooming along Lilac lane and on other parts of the campus will last approximately a week, according to James Reiter, landscape foreman. The iris blooming will last about two weeks.
About the time the iris fade, or near May 1, the flower beds in front of the hospital, the triangular bed by Green hall, the Chi Omega circle, and the bed in front of Hoch auditorium will be planted with flowers transplanted from the greenhouse. These will include red geraniums, petunias, and red and green Alternanthera.
Thanks to the efforts of the greenhouse workers with cooperation from nature, the campus never will be without flowers this spring. Mr.Reiter's problem now, however, is what kind of flowers to use at Commencement in June since the early spring has rushed the blooming time for most of his flowers.
Aircraft Metal Work May Be Offered Next Fall
A course in aircraft metal work will be offered next fall if Fowler shops gets enough machinery for a complete laboratory, Paul Hausman, professor of shop practice, said this morning.
Six pieces are here already and several more are expected to arrive soon. Professor Hausman and Howard Rust, also of the department, have been scouting war surplus sales at the Pratt and Whitney plant in Kansas City, for equipment.
Syracuse University has established a new laboratory of industrial electronics, which will give both graduate and undergraduate courses.
[Fire Near 'Forever Amber'
—But From Short Circuit]
Hollywood. (UP)—A fire broke out on the set yesterday while Peggy Cummins was playing a torrid bedroom scene in the shooting of "Forever Amber."
A short circuit caused smoke to rise from the floor as Miss Cummins lay in bed arguing with her screen lover. Firemen prevented any serious damage.
UTILITY WARDROBES
Schoeppel Commends K-State Students For UN Conference
Manhattan. (UP)—Gov. Andrew Schoepp today commended Kansas State college students for their organization of student united nations conferences. The Student UNO, based on the San Francisco charter, was established to give students a fuller understanding of international problems.
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"You are studying here the problems confronting the diplomats and leaders of the nations as they seek to find a basis for a just and lasting peace," the Kansas chief executive said. "You are to be commended for your interest in these paramount questions."
Schoeppel told students it was their responsibility to see that the principles are informed and in strong support of the principles surrounding the UNO.
"An aroused and enlightened public opinion can become a great agency for forcing national and world leaders to a realization that it is not a question of territory or national expansion that is of supreme importance, but the preservation of civilization and the creation of international decency," he said.
Three Escaped Inmates Captured by Police
Hutchinson. (UP)—Two of three Kansas State reformatory inmates were back in their cells today, and the third was held by police in Wichita, after their escape here Friday.
Earl Oaks and Wendell Hart were returned by officers Sunday. They were apprehended in Ponca City, Okla., while driving an automobile that had been stolen at Winfield.
Officers were en route to Wichita today to return the third man, Norvette Ingram. Negro. He was apprehended by Wichita police last night.
A penetrometer is used to measure the toughness of meat; it is a cutting-tool and records the pressure required to shear through a sample of the meat.
Confusing and Amusing Is Play About History of Human Race
"All the world's a stage," and all the people in it go on, age after age, making plans and mistakes.
But you'll wonder why their parts haven't ended, when you see "The Skin of Our Teeth" a play by Thornton Wilder to be given by an all-student cast in Fraser theater, April 30 and 31 and May 1.
Prof. Allen Crafton, the director, said that this comedy on the history of the human race is the most produced play in America this season. He added that during the year of production, 1943, it took both the Pulitzer prize and the Critics' prize.
The play is about George Atobus, any average American man, his wife and two children, and the maid, Lila Sabina. They have survived fire, flood, pestilence, the seven-year locusts, the ice age, the black pox, many wars and many depressions all by the "skin of their teeth." And still they have great plans for the future.
They live now in the present, now in the past, are alternately "be-witched, befuddled and becalmed." They are the stuff of which heroes and fools are made. They are true offsprings of Adam and Eve, victims all who are which such heirs. The play is a tribute to their indestructibility.
The presentation of the play is informal. Some of the action takes
place off the stage. Sabina, the maid, has no scruples about talking to the audience.
Speaking about the play in the first act, she says, "I don't understand a single word of it, all about the troubles the human race has gone through. . . Besides the author hasn't made up his mind as to whether we're all living back in caves or in New Jersey today, and that's the way it is all the way through."
What's more, the play ends as it began, with the Atrobuses still planning the future with confidence, and with Sabina explaining that "the end of the play isn't written yet."
Vander Werf, Bradlow Improve on DDT
Profs. Calvin Vander Werf and H. Leon Bradlow, both K.U. chemistry department teachers, added fluorine to DDT, made what they call DFDT; and now find experimentally that it's more potent than its original, they explained.
Two University scientists have developed a stronger successor to DDT, they told the American Chemical society meeting in Atlantic City last week.
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RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING KEEP GENERAL ELECTRIC YEARS AHEAD
LIGHTING AT GENERAL ELECTRIC
THE amount of knowledge accumulated in lamp making is enormous. Some of this knowledge is committed to paper, but much of it is to be found only in the minds of technical and production men in the laboratories and in the factories. Among these men are scores who, on leaving their technical colleges, have since directed their special training to developing better lamps for less money.
The manufacturing operations of General Electric's Lamp Department are far-flung, its 36 plants being scattered about the country in 17 cities.
Altogether they add up to 94 acres of floor space roughly equivalent to an eight-story, mile-long factory a hundred feet wide.
The goal of G-E Lamp Research has always been to produce the best possible lamps for every lighting service at the lowest cost. Over the years lamp prices have been repeatedly reduced while lamp efficiency has steadily improved. For example, the present 60-watt lamp bulb is 56 percent brighter than its ancestor of 1923, yet costs only one-quarter as much. General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y.
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